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• Geert Jan Vandenberghe, Duffel († 1986)
• Elisabeth Maria Catharina Stöver, Kampen
• Joan Iris Makarie Lindenberg († 2016)
• Folkert Johan van Halsema, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• Goderfridus Cornelius Maria Dudok, Terheijden
• Doodgeboren kind van de Wijdeven, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• Isabelle Maria VAN THURN-VALSÁSSINA-COMO-VERCELLI, Klagenfurt Austria († 1988)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1962)
• Henriette Eleonora van Eeghen, Amsterdam
• Spangle, Canoga Park, Calif († 1962)

• Adriana Antonetta Maria Legierse (71), Rotterdam
• Adriaan Marinus de Vries (80), Paramaribo, Suriname
• Aris Diepeveen (41), Maarn
• Adrianus Johannes BECHT (80), Koudekerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Andrew van der Stoep (53), Oak Harbor, Island County, Washington
• Adrianus Marinus Rommens (60), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aris Diepeveen (41), Maarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Lamberta Johanna Jacoba de Kock (54), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Anna Maria Theresia Moeskops (87), Alphen en Riel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Verreijt (46), Vlijmen

• 1956 » Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host
• 1958 » Outback Jack, Australian-American wrestler
• 1961 » Di Farmer, Queensland Member of Parliament
• 1961 » Jim Harris, Canadian environmentalist and politician
• 1961 » Michel Martelly, Haitian singer and politician, 56th President of Haiti
• 1964 » Omar Hakim, American drummer, producer, arranger, and composer
• 1965 » Christine Elise, American actress and producer
• 1965 » David Westlake, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 » Rubén Amaro, Jr., American baseball player and manager
• 1966 » Paul Crook, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1947 » Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian educator, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
• 1954 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1958 » Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (b. 1903)
• 1971 » James Cash Penney, American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (b. 1875)
• 1975 » Carl Lutz, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher and scholar (b. 1894)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
• July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
• July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
• August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
• August 30 » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
• November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

The temperature on February 12, 1962 was between 4.2 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.